The problem with 1 server is I'm not a fan of how they did the naming. As it is, there's no real reason to try and make a cool character name, because all people are going to notice is your global handle. Which also brings up the problem of every dumbshit in the game immediately knowing what your global handle is.

Also, swinging has one significant problem.

"Fly, yes. Land? No."

You can't land. You can only let go mid-swing and hope the falling damage doesn't do you in or drop you off in the middle of a mass of mobs who will then 1-shot you.

Also the swing has a nasty habit of sending you flying backwards if you don't time your releases right or it's laggy. Compared to fly it's a ridiculously complicated and dangerous way of getting around.

The problem with 1 server is I'm not a fan of how they did the naming. As it is, there's no real reason to try and make a cool character name, because all people are going to notice is your global handle. Which also brings up the problem of every dumbshit in the game immediately knowing what your global handle is.

Also, swinging has one significant problem.

"Fly, yes. Land? No."

You can't land. You can only let go mid-swing and hope the falling damage doesn't do you in or drop you off in the middle of a mass of mobs who will then 1-shot you.

Also the swing has a nasty habit of sending you flying backwards if you don't time your releases right or it's laggy. Compared to fly it's a ridiculously complicated and dangerous way of getting around.

Compared to CoH's "some goober took that name three years ago and never did anything with it so you can't have it and I hope you like having convoluted names for all your characters because everything good is taken" bullshit I am totally cool with how Champions does it.

Also, they recently corrected swinging and fixed the very issues you complained about.

Not that you actually play the beta enough to notice, but just enough to have spurious complaints, Scooter.

It's not necessarily the "SERVER FIRSTS!" that I'm talking about. It's things like, "Yeah this server is full of a bunch of furries" and "This server has a super aggressive Horde side despite being outnumbered."

I've heard that CoH's Pinnacle server, the one I used to mainly play on, is referred to as the Drunk Server.

Some are the same thing with different animations. For example, Flight and Jet Boots do the same thing, but the animation is different.

Sold! So sold on the idea of Jet Boots!

I don't know how many truly "different" travel powers there are but it's not 12, I think it's more than 6-8 tho. There's a variety of "flight" options that all work a bit differently.

Jet boots and flight both fly, but jet boots have a different mechanic. Flight is a generic activate and forget travel power. Jet boots are faster but require active participation to keep up speed. Most of the powers are still being worked on so no real point in discussing specifics of how they work.

The problem with 1 server is I'm not a fan of how they did the naming. As it is, there's no real reason to try and make a cool character name, because all people are going to notice is your global handle. Which also brings up the problem of every dumbshit in the game immediately knowing what your global handle is.

Couldn't this problem be solved by the simple slash command of /hideglobalname?

Being a single shard containing the entire player base it's probably less likely you'd run into anyone copying your name anyways unless they're in a group you run with frequently.

I was a little disappointed with everything I was hearing for a while, but it does sound like the game is shaping up fairly well. I want to play this if only for the variety it offers over WoW. In WoW, everyone is wearing whatever the latest tier of gear is and there's almost no customization beyond that. I've already thought up a plethora of characters I'd like to make and then beyond that everyone else playing will have their own ideas. It'll be fun to see what everyone comes up with.

fairweather on June 2009

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Being a single shard containing the entire player base it's probably less likely you'd run into anyone copying your name anyways unless they're in a group you run with frequently.

I was a little disappointed with everything I was hearing for a while, but it does sound like the game is shaping up fairly well. I want to play this if only for the variety it offers over WoW. In WoW, everyone is wearing whatever the latest tier of gear is and there's almost no customization beyond that. I've already thought up a plethora of characters I'd like to make and then beyond that everyone else playing will have their own ideas. It'll be fun to see what everyone comes up with.

Depending on total population I expect at least a thousand dudes running around with long white hair and dressed in black named Sephiroth.

Being a single shard containing the entire player base it's probably less likely you'd run into anyone copying your name anyways unless they're in a group you run with frequently.

I was a little disappointed with everything I was hearing for a while, but it does sound like the game is shaping up fairly well. I want to play this if only for the variety it offers over WoW. In WoW, everyone is wearing whatever the latest tier of gear is and there's almost no customization beyond that. I've already thought up a plethora of characters I'd like to make and then beyond that everyone else playing will have their own ideas. It'll be fun to see what everyone comes up with.

Depending on total population I expect at least a thousand dudes running around with long white hair and dressed in black named Sephiroth.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before - but this means we SHOULD never see XxXOoOSephirothOoOXxX or its ilk again. I think I'm going to cry.

Being a single shard containing the entire player base it's probably less likely you'd run into anyone copying your name anyways unless they're in a group you run with frequently.

I was a little disappointed with everything I was hearing for a while, but it does sound like the game is shaping up fairly well. I want to play this if only for the variety it offers over WoW. In WoW, everyone is wearing whatever the latest tier of gear is and there's almost no customization beyond that. I've already thought up a plethora of characters I'd like to make and then beyond that everyone else playing will have their own ideas. It'll be fun to see what everyone comes up with.

Depending on total population I expect at least a thousand dudes running around with long white hair and dressed in black named Sephiroth.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before - but this means we SHOULD never see XxXOoOSephirothOoOXxX or its ilk again. I think I'm going to cry.

Being a single shard containing the entire player base it's probably less likely you'd run into anyone copying your name anyways unless they're in a group you run with frequently.

I was a little disappointed with everything I was hearing for a while, but it does sound like the game is shaping up fairly well. I want to play this if only for the variety it offers over WoW. In WoW, everyone is wearing whatever the latest tier of gear is and there's almost no customization beyond that. I've already thought up a plethora of characters I'd like to make and then beyond that everyone else playing will have their own ideas. It'll be fun to see what everyone comes up with.

Depending on total population I expect at least a thousand dudes running around with long white hair and dressed in black named Sephiroth.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before - but this means we SHOULD never see XxXOoOSephirothOoOXxX or its ilk again. I think I'm going to cry.

The jet boots are pretty cool. Initially you just sort of hover around once you turn them on, but if you rapidly tap the travel power button you'll go into a quick boost. It looks pretty sick. If you press the button too much though the boots will actually short out and become unusable for 10 or so seconds

Some are the same thing with different animations. For example, Flight and Jet Boots do the same thing, but the animation is different.

This is something CoX was lacking so hard. My highest level character, a technology elec / elec brute, was gonna have flying as a travel power. Unfortunately, it was limited to a single animation of just kinda looking like you fly like Rogue. Not even the tech wings and alternate costume with the flight mask and such helped to change the effect.

So, thanks to /Retcon I've managed to try all the power frameworks "pure" (like just using them) on a level 18 character.

The verdict? Some power frameworks don't tickle my fancy to take singularly. Sorcery, for example, is largely oriented around support and support really isn't my bag. However, mix Sorcery with say... Munitions and now you've got my attention.

Mage with a shotgun? Yes please.

Basically all of the power frameworks have stuff that, for me at least, I could see myself cherry-picking for a concept.